 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to Castle Rock with... SHELL! Castle Talk. I got the name of the show wrong. Can I have a cast with Hulk? Yes. Castle Talk. The episode, the show is called Castle Rock and this episode, this episode is called Local Color, which was an interesting one. I had no idea where the hell they were going with this. I still don't quite know where they're going with this. It's because of the show on the show. Yeah. I know that, but I don't know what the importance of that is going to be or the importance of Molly Strand's character to begin with. We know, of course, spoilers again. We know that Molly killed what's his nuts adopted father, the reverend, Deaver, yeah, Henry Deaver's father took the breathing tube out. Also, we were wrong in the first episode. We thought that the father that died was Henry's original father, biological father, but it was actually the reverend. We did catch that in the second episode, but some interesting things with that is, we still don't know what happened with his family life, so I'm still wondering how that came about. I mean, if he was living with them when all that stuff happened, then, I mean, was he born in Maine or was he adopted somewhere else, was he living in Texas when he was a kid? Does he have some kind of past that caused him to go into the system and then he got adopted out of the system? Yeah. That stuff. It's questionable here. We find out Molly Strand is an impasse. She hears memories and can feel other people's feelings, there's several different scenes like that. One of the more interesting ones is when they're younger and she clenches her fist when he clenches his fist. And then, what was some of the other stuff? He burnt himself and she felt it. With the match? Yeah. Yeah. And then when he's talking to her, when he first meets her again after he's come back and they're talking and she's just completely, she can't pay attention to what he's actually saying and he takes it the wrong way. I actually like that scene quite a bit. And she, Molly, the lady who plays Molly was in another movie. What was it called? Netflix. I don't feel comfortable in this world anymore or whatever. Home anymore or something like that. Another one. She played another really awkward lady, not very social and all that stuff. It's interesting to see her play that character on something different and how that character fits into this world. But not only that, but on that show, her house gets broken into two. Yeah. So it's weird. It's kind of like a deja vu thing for me. I'm pretty sure I have to find the needful things, the movie. But I'm pretty sure Molly Strand is a kind of like, maybe not even, not a twinner, but maybe, I don't know how to put it. Maybe she's another version of Pauly Chalmers from Needful Things because she's wearing a necklace that reminds me very strongly of the necklace that Pauly wears in the movie Needful Things. She gets a necklace also in the book, but in the movie specifically, I think they use the same necklace and she fits the description other than she doesn't have the arthritis. I'm wondering if maybe, you know, there's a little throwback there also. I thought I caught something with the dates that are mentioned at one point in time. It's 11, 22, 89. Yeah. On the videotape. On the videotape that he sets fire to. And of course, that's 26 years from 11, 22, 62. Because he says something along the lines and cursing out his dad as he's burning the tape. So I was like, okay, what'd you just do? But that is 26 years, I did the math wrong there at first. I thought it was 27 years between 11, 22, 63. Which is another one of Stephen King's books. But it's only 26 years. I was like, is there some kind of Pennywise thing they're throwing in there? Because Pennywise is going to be back. Then again, there would be 26 years in between. If it's every 27 years, there would be 26 years in between and he would be coming back on the 27th year. So is there something there? I don't know. Be cool. What is that? But the book, it happens in 56, I think. So that would screw up the timeline there. Unless, of course, they're shooting for the timeline of the reboot television series. And that's in 86, I think. Somewhere in the 80s. I don't remember. I'd have to do the math. But it'd be 27 years from back from 2017. Y'all do the math, y'all comment down there. We're going to move along. I discussed in the last one, I think Nick. We find out, they call him Nick in this one, Bill Skarsgard's character. I think he's either Randall Flagg, or he's an offshoot of the Crimson King, or he is the Crimson King. We don't know. We know that Lacey put him down there, and we know that Lacey told him to look up, what's his face, Henry Dever. I keep forgetting his name. But it's all my notes for that. But here's my biggest problem with the show so far. There's really nothing happening. We are three episodes in, and the only interesting stuff that has happened has either been quick flashbacks like Molly killing the Reverend, or a complete illusion, which is when Selinski, the guard sees Nick, has killed everybody in the hallway, but that didn't actually happen. Here we are now, where did it end off? He was standing out at Castle Lake, isn't that where the episode ended, and he thinks he feels somebody watching him behind him, and younger him is behind him. So there's a mentioning of doorways also. Quite a few, yeah. And of course, how do you get around in the multiverse to go through doors, like in the drawing of the three. But like I said, my problem is right now it all feels like fan service. It doesn't feel like a coherent storyline. It just feels like a delivery system for Easter eggs. Now I think we're in the next episode, we might actually start getting somewhere towards a real plot, but I don't think I like what might be coming because of what happened with Molly at the TV station, and the show, and how she just conveniently hears all of Henry's thoughts, and starts blabbing all his business out for everybody in the town to hear. So convenient that now the whole town knows about all this, so Henry can go visit our buddy Nick. Yeah. Really? They're really reaching, and I'm hoping that there is more to this story, and more happens than just trying to figure out who Nick is. But I don't, honestly I don't care to spend 10 episodes wondering who Nick is. That's what I'm trying to do. I want to get to it, I want to learn who he is, and I want drama to come from it. What's, I mean, another thing, another big problem of mine is why are they keeping him a secret? Is it only so they don't get in trouble because the guy just killed himself, and they don't want even more drama on top of it? I mean, it's not going to give them drama, it's more on him. What was Lacey's original purpose for putting him down in the first place? Yeah, and the longer they keep him the more crap they're going to get for it. The harder it's going to be to explain away, you know, the name and say it in the show. The longer you keep him here, and why doesn't Henry just take the payout? I mean, what, I don't like his motivations, is he only going to- I mean, if I were Henry in his position, I wouldn't want to deal with these people treating me the way that they have been since I got back in town. You take the money and you run so you don't have to deal with their crap. Yeah, and I don't think that the mystery of where he went as a kid is strong enough to carry it either. There is nothing so far other than the amazing Easter eggs. They haven't dropped us enough clues to make us actually interested. I would really like to hear if anybody out there is watching this show and is not a Stephen King fan like Shell, are you enjoying it? I mean, is there, I'd see, because the reason why I'm enjoying it is because I'm enjoying the Easter egg hunting. That's the same reason why I enjoyed reading The Fireman, even though I didn't like The Fireman because it was just a bunch of Stephen King, even though it was a Joe Hill book, it was just a bunch of Stephen King Easter eggs. It was a fun experience, but it wasn't a good story on its own, and that's what I'm feeling now. It's not holding up, I mean, it's cool to be able to pick out some things from like the old TV mini-series shows and stuff, but so far I'm just kind of like, yeah, this is happening. The thing is, it feels like somebody had this really threadbare plot over here on the side and said, let's slap Stephen King's name on it and let's use this to deliver, you know, fan service because if there wasn't the Easter eggs, nobody would be, let's be honest, nobody would be watching this show. If this didn't have Castle Rock on it, people would probably have quit after the first episode, at least I would have because it's just not my thing. The mystery, I don't think the mystery is strong enough, so I'm hoping that there's more to it. We have seven more episodes to go and hopefully more seasons after that because I'd love to see some Dark Tower stuff. I'd love to see some, I would love to see a Leland Gaunt storyline. I would love to see Needful Things again, but I'm also not sure of the timeline, you know, is the timeline, is it an alternate history, is it another turn of the wheel kind of thing or did Needful Things already happen? Are we on a modern timeline and those things actually happen because we only had Kujo. Yeah, and with the flashbacks, they're not tying anything together and it feels like they're just jumping from one time to another and back and it's like, there's nothing cohesive here and it gets a little confusing about it. I think that's the main problem that I'm having is, you know, there's nothing that's holding everything together. Right now, like I said, probably three times already, it's a delivery system for Easter eggs. That's it. So yeah, anything else? Okay, so this was the third episode. We were talking about local color of Castle Rock on Hulu. If you guys found anything that we did not talk about, if you want to talk about whether or not you're liking it or not liking it or whatever, if you're indifferent to it, if you're not even going to watch it, let us know down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U, this has been Castle Talk with Shell. We'll see you guys later. Bye bye.